It Ain’t Haiku

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"RJ Blanchard an enigma.
As a child RJ did not know how to overcome his painful shyness so he did the only thing his young mind could come up with, he became a chameleon. This fateful mistake was to dominate the next sixty years of his life. His timidity never allowed him to seek the spot
light allowing others to take credit for his many accomplishments.
He was so adept in the art of anonymity that even the things he did for his family and friends went unrecognized. Not realizing that it was his life style of invisibility that caused the lack of respect from others, he grew angry at the world around him. It festered for years growing more ominous with each slight until fi nally it manifested itself in the form of untreatable
Clinical Depression. He fought for his soul, indeed for his life, won and in the process learned about the man who resided inside the body. With the secrets of his life unlocked he felt a need to share them with those he loved.
It Ain’t Haiku became RJ’s catharsis allowing him to delve into the deep recesses of his mind. He shed tears for what he found sad and lonely. As is his nature, he expressed anger and
discontent with the ignorance that was revealed. He even found a way to laugh and smile about some of the craziness that life had offered up to him. When he was satisfi ed that the explorations were complete he moved to the exit, glanced back one more time at the anger and pain of his past, then stepped through the threshold to his future."

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